Anyone using Asus K55VM-SX086D Laptop for running ROS

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Hi there Aknirala! I've got an Asus ROG that was around 900$ at the time if I remember correctly, it has twice the ram than the K55VM, it has an i7-4720HQ 2.6 GHz Processor and for the graphics card, it has a Geforce 960M. I've never had a problem with it, quite the opposite I was able to run very complex simulations (with the Atlas and Valkyrie Robot), pointclouds, rviz, some deep learning nodes and while the fan was ultra loud it never gave up on me.

If you are getting a laptop, I recommended getting something that is oriented towards gamers, since you'd likely require most of the things they do.

Also, whatever you are getting, please make sure to get an SSD. My laptop came with 1TB HDD but after changing to a Samsung EVO SSD I notices around 20% improvement.

Also, ram is important apart from video, so that 8GB ram will be eaten up really quick, 16GB or 32Gb would be the ideal number, then again, it depends on your budget!

P.S. I used Caffe and Digits for deep learning and I could train my models in my laptop, it was slow compared to a desktop but it worked, so I'd leave the laptop training overnight and I was done.

P.P.S. And I play games on it on a dual boot so I am all set :D